December 2011
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Copper, Ag and Au are known as coinage metals because they were used to make coins. All the metals are noble w.r.t. chemical activity.
Table.12.1
As a general rule, they should have electronic configuration (n–1)d9ns2. But due to greater stability of fully and half filled orbitals, all have configuration (n–1)d10ns1.
Figure 12.1
All coinage metals have similar lattice structure, faced-centred cubic (ccp) ...
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